QA Engineer
Location: GB, , London
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Quality Assurance

Company profile:
Axonix is a global mobile advertising technology company that's powered by a platform with a 4 year history of leading the market. Using technology acquired from Mobclix, the world’s first RTB-enabled mobile ad exchange, Axonix offers a fully transparent programmatic trading platform that enables publishers to sell their mobile advertising inventory in real-time to brands, agencies and ad networks globally.We serve billions of ads per month across more than 150+ countries, working with our 100+ demand partners globally to achieve industry-leading CPMs, CTRs and fill rates. With built-in fraud detection controls and data-driven targeting options, we help advertisers to secure the optimal ad inventory that will deliver the best campaign results for them.Axonix is headquartered in central London and backed by Telefonica and private equity group, Blackstone.OUR PHILOSOPHY TO HIRINGOur technology serves billions of mobile ads every month, across more than 150 countries. Our company is truly global in scale. We're growing so fast we need to hire the best people out there.People who thrive on fresh challenges. People who want to see their work make an impact, right away. People who demand a lot from themselves and others. We hire someone when we’re sure “There’s no better person for this job, and no better person we’d rather work with.”We know people are our most important asset. If you're exceptional at what you do, we want to hear from you. The next stage in your career could start today.

Job description:
The software development team is the engine that drives our ambition to build the world’s best mobile advertising platform. To grow the team, Axonix is recruiting additional Quality Assurance experts who will be responsible for ensuring all our software products are of the highest quality and fully robust prior to release.Based in London as a member of the Development team, you will play a key role in supporting a platform  composed of over 60 AWS EC2 Linux instances that is already serving 100,000,000 requests per day just 6 weeks after we launched, with a plan to reach in excess of 1 billion ad requests per day by the end of 2014.

Requirements:
We are looking for a candidate with experience in Quality Assurance and Release Management for web and mobile products. The position is a hybrid QA/RM integrated in the development team that will include control of the revision flow on production and pre-release environments in coordination with system administrators and the definition, automation and execution of test plans in coordination with the rest of the development team and the business team.The ideal candidate would therefore:Be familiar with an agile workflow based around Git, issue tracking and Hudson.Be familiar with AWS and related tools in order to query and inspect systems. In particular S3 and EC2. Elastic MapReduce a plus.Have working knowledge of SQL to query for results and troubleshoot the applicationHave experience with Linux bash scripts, python or ruby to be able to walk through systems and diagnose and troubleshoot issues.Have hands-on experience in test automation tools for Web, Android and iOS.Knowledge of CloudFormation and other deployment automation tools will be a plus.Proven flexibility and willingness to ‘roll sleeves up’ as required in the fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment of a small start up

Benefits:
Competitive salary according to experienceAnnual bonus schemeGenerous flexible benefits package